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Uday and Qusay Hussein were buried today under the scorching noon sun in a cemetery just outside of their father's ancestral village of Owja. U.S. soldiers escorted the bodies of the sons of Saddam Hussein, and that of Qusay's 14-year-old boy Mustafa, and handed them over to the care of the local sheik. The military insisted on burying the two sons without an audience. A checkpoint was set up on the road to the cemetery, according to locals, to keep relatives and the citizens of Tikrit and Owja away while the two men's bodies...
...wrote that his work was made possible by the IBM 7090 electronic computer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories, which helped to determine “significant horizon positions for rising and setting of Sun, Moon, stars and planets...
Stocks rally when the sun shines, according to the latest issue of the Journal of Finance. David Hirshleifer of Ohio State University and Tyler Shumway of the University of Michigan looked at stock markets in 26 countries over 16 years and found that performance goes up as cloud cover goes down, bolstering a claim first made a decade ago. The reason is what you might think: sunny weather leads to a sunny disposition and a more optimistic outlook on prospects. There's no money in sunny, though. Transaction costs will probably erase any benefit gained trading on nice days...
...about her exact birth year. After growing up in Havana, she joined the band La Sonora Matancera. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959, she left for the U.S., where her career flourished. Her contralto voice was like the waters that separate Miami and Havana--inviting, sun-kissed, capable of rising up in a storm. Cruz sang with everybody who was anybody in Latin music--fronting Johnny Pacheco's band, appearing with Tito Puente in the movie The Mambo Kings--and many future somebodies were listening. Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Ruben Blades and La India acknowledged her influence. Known...
Think "Italy," and you'll probably envision sun, pasta, amore, corruption--but not broadband. Think again. Led by Silvio Scaglia, 44, Italy is among the world leaders in a technology called "fiber to the home," which transmits 20 to 200 times as fast as the DSL and cable-broadband services common around the globe. That fiber is fast enough to deliver movies without any hiccups, and to send songs in seconds rather than minutes. Scaglia and his company, e.Biscom, are funneling feature films and sitcoms--plus conventional Web and phone services--to PCs and TVs in six major Italian cities...